The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Service Administration (SAMHSA), Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT) and Center for Mental Health Services (CMH) has partnered for the purpose of jointly fund the enhancement or development of the infrastructure of states and their treatment service system to increase capacity to provide accessible, effective, comprehensive, coordinated/integrated, and evidence-based treatment services; permanent housing; peer supports; and other critical services for the following: veterans who experience homelessness or chronic homelessness, and other individuals (non-veterans) who experience chronic homelessness.

Cooperative Agreement to Benefit Homeless Individuals (CABHI)-States

Ohio Mental Health and Addiction Services (OhioMHAS) and its partners will implement and operate the Ohio Housing and Recovery Initiative Enhancement (OHRI) project to address housing and service gaps for chronically homeless veterans and non-veterans and homeless veterans in Cuyahoga, Franklin, Hamilton, Montgomery and Summit Counties. Evidence based treatment and recovery supports will be shared statewide through an enhanced infrastructure. Major partners include the Alcohol, Drug Addiction and Mental Health (ADAMH) Boards and their providers, and the Ohio Housing and Homeless Collaborative (HHC). For this grant, OhioMHAS was awarded funding for 3 years, through Federal Fiscal Year (FFY) September 2017)

Ohio Mental Health and Addiction Services (OhioMHAS) and its partners will implement and operate the Ohio Housing and Recovery Initiative Enhancement (OHRIE) project to address housing and service gaps for chronically homeless veterans and non-veterans and homeless veterans in Cuyahoga, Franklin, Hamilton, Lucas, Mahoning/Trumbull, Montgomery and Stark Counties. Evidence based treatment and recovery supports will be shared statewide through an enhanced infrastructure. Major partners include the Alcohol, Drug Addiction and Mental Health (ADAMH) Boards and their providers, and the Ohio Housing and Homeless Collaborative (HHC).

Between the two grants, we are anticipating that a total of 2,500 individuals will be screened over the grant period with 1,089 receiving permanent housing and connected to behavioral health, physical health services and benefits. Supportive employment specialists will competitively employ 125 persons. Local and state staff will be trained in EBPs and disseminate them statewide. An expanded statewide infrastructure will endorse adoption of these EBPs throughout Ohio, and adopt policies and strategies to sustain them over several years. For this grant, OhioMHAS was awarded funding for three years, through Federal Fiscal Year (FFY) September 2017).